4.12.14

A lot of
money has been spent on Swedish flags for a two-day state visit by the Swedish
royal couple, December 2-4.

Around the
Champs-Elysées…

… around the Elysées Palace.

... and the Town Hall.

Related to this visit you can also find in the Palais Royal garden a temporary (December 3-7) installation referring to the northern lights, made of 35.000 (Ikea) LED lamps.

Here are
some pictures “stolen” from Le Figaro. The royal couple was invited by Mr.
Hollande (I was not) and those of you who know something about football /
soccer will recognize the player they met at the Parc des Princes stadium.

Many times my father was invited by the Quai d’Orsay to come to Paris (he came from French people)

On arriving, he was received with "honores civiles", a chauffer and tourist guide, a room at the Ritz, tickets for the city' best shows, restaurants, etc......

If the French, with their incomparable knack for rising to the occasion, bothered to do this for a charitable, visionary Cornell trained doctor who spent his entire life healing people for free and from a third world country.........

what wouldn't they do for the visit of the King and Queen of a country like Sweden?

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